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| 1. Description - |
| This course is designed for students who want a program in which group training uses functional fitness activities to develop core strength, cardiovascular conditioning and muscle strength and power.
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| Prerequisite: None
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| Co-requisite: None
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| Advisory: This course is included in the Cross Training Family of activity courses.
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| 2. Course Objectives - |
| The student will be able to:
- Demonstrate proper warm-up and cool down techniques to enhance fitness development
- Increase core strength and endurance
- Develop quarterly and annual fitness goals
- Execute drills with proper biomechanics
- Understand the principles and benefits of group exercise training
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| 3. Special Facilities and/or Equipment - |
| Athletic shoes, athletic attire, workout mat. Access to gym/open space, medicine balls, ropes, jump ropes, free weights
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| 4. Course Content (Body of knowledge) - |
| - Demonstrate warm-up and cool down techniques to enhance fitness development
- pre exercise cardio warm-up
- flexibility training
- floor work
- breathing techniques
- Increase core strength and endurance
- balance
- core body
- speed ladder
- medicine balls
- light weights
- Develop quarterly and annual fitness goals
- long-term v short term goals
- commitment to lifestyle changes
- goal measurement and record keeping
- support team
- Execute drills with proper biomechanics
- motor skill development
- techniques
- modifications
- Principles and benefits of group exercise training
- partner drills
- relay exercises
- team play and support
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| 5. Repeatability - Moved to header area. |
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| 6. Methods of Evaluation - |
| - Written evaluation of student goals and achievements
- Individual improvement through participation
- Team verbal critiques
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| 7. Representative Text(s) - |
| Flach, Andrew. The Official Five Star Fitness Boot Camp Workout : The High-energy Fitness Program for Men and Women. New York: Hatherleigh/Five Star Fitness, 2009. Print.
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| 8. Disciplines - |
| Physical Education
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| 9. Method of Instruction - |
| Laboratory course, Skill demonstrations
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| 10. Lab Content - |
| - Demonstrate warm-up and cool down techniques to enhance fitness development
- Increase core strength and endurance
- Develop quarterly and annual fitness goals
- Execute drills with proper biomechanics
- Principles and benefits of group exercise training
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| 11. Honors Description - No longer used. Integrated into main description section. |
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| 12. Types and/or Examples of Required Reading, Writing and Outside of Class Assignments - |
| Optional reading and writing assignments as recommended by instructor
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| 13. Need/Justification - |
| This course meets the Foothill GE Requirements for Area VII, Lifelong Learning.
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